School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 222
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- (continued from previous page)one going out but a girl in rags. So her clothes turned back to rags and she never got back to the ball again.
- If you heard the cuckoo and you fasting you would be dead that day twelve-month.
Of people went into a house and they were churning they would take a brash and say "God bless the work.
Some people would say that a witch would take the butter off the milk and if they saw her they could shoot her with a crooked sixpence.
If people saw (a) (magphies) magpies they would say - One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a wedding, four for a boy.
It is not lucky to turn back if you are going to a fair.(continues on next page)
